Yair Lapid, hero of liberal Zionists in the U.S., explains why his government sought a law barring Palestinian families unification in Israel. “There’s no need to hide from the purpose of the law. It’s one of the tools meant to secure a Jewish majority in Israel. Israel is the nation-state of the Jewish people.” And leftwing Zionist party Meretz went along with the racist bill. Though Palestinian members of Knesset overwhelmingly opposed it.

Israel has had a “temporary” law passed again and again since 2003 to deny both Jewish and Palestinian residents of Israel who choose to marry Palestinians the right to live with their partner in Israel. The Palestinian party in the new government is against extending it. While Netanyahu taunts that the government is reliant on anti-Zionists and pushes for a permanent law affirming Jewish supremacy yet again.

Pro-Israel advocates are attempting to sanitize new Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s 2013 quote, “I’ve killed many Arabs in my life, and there’s no problem with that.” Jonathan Ofir shows that not only is this campaign lying, but Bennett’s statement is actually even worse than it appears.

Liberal Zionists are celebrating Israel’s new rightwing prime minister, Naftali Bennett. Why? Although many secular Zionist leftists may not see him as “Our guy”, they may still identify with him on his militarism and the startup ideology, and this may be enough to sanitize him for them, as a pragmatic partner whom they can emotionally accept.

Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid’s “Change bloc” that may form the next Israeli government is not ideologically very different to a Likud bloc. It might not have the extreme right Kahanist faction of Jewish Power in it, as the right bloc did, but the Change bloc really is about Jewish power anyway: the Zionist dominance of Jewish power.

Israel just wiped out entire families in Gaza in the name of apartheid. So this is not the time to tone down the “rhetoric” about Israel in the west. This is precisely the time to articulate these grave matters. These are not petty matters – these are crimes against humanity.

Israelis join in times of wars like in no other times. Well, the Jewish Israeli ones mostly join under their Zionism, and Palestinians who protest in solidarity with their Palestinian brethren, are seen as traitors. So the war situation creates a necessary societal rift, by which the Zionist vein is strengthened. This is what a right-wing leader needs.

Many seem to see Netanyahu as an illiberal, corrupt, anti-democratic leader. But we must also see, that he is part of a regime that itself is illiberal, corrupt and anti-democratic. It’s always been the case. Who is the new hope? Gideon Sa’ar who is even to the right of Netanyahu? Naftali Bennett who is even to the right of Sa’ar? Or Yair Lapid, who is to their left, alas with the “principle” which says “maximum Jews on maximum land with maximum security and with minimum Palestinians”?

Jewish Power, the party of followers of the late Jewish-fascist rabbi Meir Kahane, has helped get six seats in the Israeli parliament for its bloc, Religious Zionism. So Itamar Ben Gvir, the Kahanist who keeps a poster of Baruch Goldstein, the 1994 Hebron massacre perpetrator, in his living room, will enter the Israeli parliament, Knesset. James Zogby and other commentators have compared Jewish Power, to the KKK or neo-Nazis.

Rightwinger Naftali Bennett is the kingmaker in Israeli election next week, and signals, correctly, that the Israeli right should not be fearful of Yair Lapid. For Lapid’s party states in Hebrew that it is for the settlement project, though it scrubs that section from the English version intended for US liberal Zionists!